Can save as a draft & no one else can see the content. Regular save publishes the page for sharing. URL longer= saved. Buttons below. Tabs above to edit. Page renaming by wiki organizer (Rick) only unless he enables others as organizers.
Can get email notification everytime something is changed on a wiki.(See tab "Notify Me" above.) This is useful for monitoring/moderating with students. History documents who has done what.
With a blog, you don't have this same kind of public audit trail... only the administrator knows who has done what
One person used wikis for assignment pages with resources. & then did podcasting for student assignment. Set up wikis with teacher- Created a wiki about using wikis for teachers. Suggests to teachers using only 1 page to center all discussion so students not all over the place commenting on a page which is not the correct topic page.
One advantage over group email is having the ability to co-write & co-edit a document.
Library staff using for status of projects to communicate internally.
Newton-we used for tech plan development & for grant-writing.
Youtube video: post to staff email...
Another person's Question: How do you get the group to come to an agreement on a document? use the discussion button or have a forum. Administrator can lock a page so no more changes can be made but still continue the discussion.
Scroll to bottom of pages, select theHelp link & it wll guide you!
See the wiki slides...Wikipedia more current & "nearly as accurate" as encyclopedia Britannica. Syntax not as good- overwritten- not as easily understandable or accessible. wikis are easy website & less complicated to manage.
Wikinews.org
library wiki for best practices libsuccess.org
Can get a copy of the powerpoint slides from the presentation section to get it & use with staff/modify as needed.
Presenter does not use pbwiki because it is not as secure so you can see other peoples' personal stuff. You can also be "locked out". wikispaces is more secure.
Hard to find best practices of teachers' wikis because most are private
Waltham High site - embedding media - on EDCO library site embed audio or video directions or embed powerpoint: voki's (characters) -insert widgets button at top- or imeme for audio...can see teachers looking at site but she struggles to get people to add/participate
Find out what are the inhibitors for us to doing something more like Waltham??? Is it security, space, permissions/user agreement or "contract"
nutmeg chlren's book award wiki has a student contract & guidelines...or a wiki code of ethics that student help to develop...eg. no talking in IM-ing language nutmeg.wikispaces.com
BLOGS
A series of posts or entries, a web log or diary not interactive- usually ordered by date
Only owner can change or edit a post...however, can do a team blogging so distinguishing characteristic is really the purpose of it: group editting truly more a wiki - blogs like Will Richardson or Joyce Valenza have blogs that are more informative
Blogs - RSS- Really Simple Syndication
Can comment or respond or put up a link
Not all blogs have commenting enabled
Can be emailed when blog is updated- RSS feed notifies of blogs updated- There are RSS feeders or aggregators that can be installed. Set up an RSS reader account - bloglines.com.
WIKIS
- Wizzywig- what you see is what you get
- Can save as a draft & no one else can see the content. Regular save publishes the page for sharing. URL longer= saved. Buttons below. Tabs above to edit. Page renaming by wiki organizer (Rick) only unless he enables others as organizers.
- Can get email notification everytime something is changed on a wiki.(See tab "Notify Me" above.) This is useful for monitoring/moderating with students. History documents who has done what.
- With a blog, you don't have this same kind of public audit trail... only the administrator knows who has done what
- https://edcolibrary.wikispaces.com/efbook = unique URL so it can be bookmarked!
- One person used wikis for assignment pages with resources. & then did podcasting for student assignment. Set up wikis with teacher- Created a wiki about using wikis for teachers. Suggests to teachers using only 1 page to center all discussion so students not all over the place commenting on a page which is not the correct topic page.
- One advantage over group email is having the ability to co-write & co-edit a document.
- Library staff using for status of projects to communicate internally.
- Newton-we used for tech plan development & for grant-writing.
- Youtube video: post to staff email...
- Another person's Question: How do you get the group to come to an agreement on a document? use the discussion button or have a forum. Administrator can lock a page so no more changes can be made but still continue the discussion.
- Scroll to bottom of pages, select theHelp link & it wll guide you!
- See the wiki slides...Wikipedia more current & "nearly as accurate" as encyclopedia Britannica. Syntax not as good- overwritten- not as easily understandable or accessible. wikis are easy website & less complicated to manage.
- Wikinews.org
- library wiki for best practices libsuccess.org
- Can get a copy of the powerpoint slides from the presentation section to get it & use with staff/modify as needed.
- Valenza blog is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJNeverEndingSearch
- Valenza wiki is: Teacher Librarian Wiki , by Joyce Valenza - http://teacherlibrarianwiki.pbwiki.com/
- Wiki for school library teachers.
- Presenter does not use pbwiki because it is not as secure so you can see other peoples' personal stuff. You can also be "locked out". wikispaces is more secure.
- Hard to find best practices of teachers' wikis because most are private
- Waltham High site - embedding media - on EDCO library site embed audio or video directions or embed powerpoint: voki's (characters) -insert widgets button at top- or imeme for audio...can see teachers looking at site but she struggles to get people to add/participate
- http://walthamhigh.wikispaces.com/
- Find out what are the inhibitors for us to doing something more like Waltham??? Is it security, space, permissions/user agreement or "contract"
- nutmeg chlren's book award wiki has a student contract & guidelines...or a wiki code of ethics that student help to develop...eg. no talking in IM-ing language nutmeg.wikispaces.com
BLOGS- A series of posts or entries, a web log or diary not interactive- usually ordered by date
- Only owner can change or edit a post...however, can do a team blogging so distinguishing characteristic is really the purpose of it: group editting truly more a wiki - blogs like Will Richardson or Joyce Valenza have blogs that are more informative
- Blogs - RSS- Really Simple Syndication
- Can comment or respond or put up a link
- Not all blogs have commenting enabled
- Can be emailed when blog is updated- RSS feed notifies of blogs updated- There are RSS feeders or aggregators that can be installed. Set up an RSS reader account - bloglines.com.
- http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english Common Craft on blog readers HOW-TO
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